The Lucksmiths - The Town & the Hills lyrics

The road is long and slow The clouds are hanging low About the shoulders of the hills Where the shadow k**s the light Your face and hands are cold And if I may make so bold You could be made of marble, dear That's just what I fear The stars are out tonight The stillness of the light The weight of shadows cast Like pieces of the past I've been told That when our bones are old The sea will rush this place And wipe it clean Listen to me this time The city sand and lime And skylarks long have left it's streets Where the darkness meets The cold and empty lanes Carried home in trains The beery and the sore The drunken and the poor When was the last time you sang Along with the bells as they rang And people didn't stop to stare? Even if I could reconcile The two of us for a quarter mile I'm not convinced it would be A good reason for us to depart The highway, go back to the start The longest road stretched below Where the darkness meets The river as it bends Through the shadow wends It's way to unquiet seas And when you feel the breeze, at last When was the last time you sang Along with the bells as they rang?